Tim Sullivan (artist)
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Tim Sullivan is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 born visual artist who specializes in photography. Sullivan's work pays homage to the late pop artist Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...

, for example in his Sad Lunch photograph, which also references Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy, particularly Marxism, and was one of the key figures in literary...

's existentialist novel Nausea.

Achievements

1998 Sullivan was awarded a Prevetti Scholarship for the arts, from the University of Wisconsin. He also was the recipient of the 2006 Goldie Award from the San Francisco Bay Guardian
San Francisco Bay Guardian
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, and won first place in the Texas Photographic Society National Juried Competition.

In 2003, he was awarded a Murphy Fellowship from the San Francisco Foundation, and in 2004 was awarded a
Teaching Assistant Fellowship for Tony Labat of New Genres
New Genres
New Genres is an artistic movement begun in the early 20th century. The movement is marked by many famous artists through sculpture, film, body art, installation, performance, photography, painting, and media yet to be discovered.-Definition:...

.

His work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Europe and South America. Sullivan also works in sculpture and video.

Sullivan is represented by Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco.
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